On 22nd February 2022, invited partners from the GrowGreen and IGNITION projects in Greater Manchester attended a webinar organised with the City of Wuhan. Experiences were explored around sponge city design, implementation, and monitoring, to further cooperation around Nature-Based Solutions and the Sponge City concept. An introduction to the IGNITION project and the Living Lab...

GrowGreen partners Bipolaire published a catalogue of nature-based solutions for the city of Valencia. The “Catalogue of nature-based solutions” aims to provide an overview and inventory of the different pavements and drainage surfaces used in the GrowGreen pilot projects in Valencia, for the potential uptake of such solutions within a project aimed at the amplification...

As the latest climate report was released this week, the messaging couldn’t have been more dire. The report states that the world faces ‘multiple climate hazards over the next two decades, some of which will be irreversible’. The UN Secretary-General António Guterres left no doubt to this warning when concluding that “today’s IPCC report is...